stop reacting to every little provocation and get all the serious articles up on FR:
22 Jul: Fox News: FBI told FISA court Steele wasn’t source of report used to justify surveilling Trump team, docs show
by Greg Re; Fox News’ Catherine Herridge and Pamela K. Browne contributed to this report.
On four occasions, the FBI told the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) court that it “did not believe” former British spy Christopher Steele was the direct source for a Yahoo News article implicating former Trump aide Carter Page in Russian collusion, newly released documents reveal.
Instead, the FBI suggested to the court, the September 2016 article by Michael Isikoff was independent corroboration of the salacious, unverified allegations against Trump in the infamous Steele Dossier. Federal authorities used both the Steele Dossier and Yahoo News article to convince the FISA court to authorize a surveillance warrant for Page.
But London court records show that contrary to the FBI’s assessments, Steele briefed Yahoo News and other reporters in the fall of 2016 at the direction of Fusion GPS — the opposition research firm behind the dossier...
The documents describe Source #1 as someone “hired by a business associate to conduct research” into Trump’s Russia ties — but do not mention that Fusion GPS was funded by the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/22/fbi-told-fisa-court-steele-wasnt-source-report-used-to-justify-surveilling-trump-team-docs-show.html
THIS